The new edition of the CAF-Elhuyar Awards begins. This award aims to recognize and promote the integration of science and technology in the Basque country. This year's motto is the knowledge vaccine, with the novelty that two creation grants will be awarded instead of one. The other categories will remain the same.

• Original disclosure articles. It is divided into two subcategories: general disclosure articles and disclosure articles based on the author's doctoral thesis. The winners of these subcategories will receive a prize of EUR 2,000, an annual subscription to Elhuyar magazine and a sculpture by Imanol Andonegi Mendizabal.
• [Scientific journalism]. 2,000 euros, one year of subscription and sculpture for Elhuyar magazine.
• [Creation scholarships in Science Society]. This category includes projects that work on the interaction between science/technology and society. The authors of the projects selected will receive a grant of EUR 5,000 for their implementation, as well as a sculpture.

As has already been done in recent years, once again, the special NEIKER prize will be awarded to the best article related to the primary sector, endowed with €2,000 and compatible with other awards.

Work may be submitted until 12 February 2021 at the following address: cafelhuyarsariak.elhuyar.eus

[Fossil plastics]. Exhibition Imaginary Trunks

Fossil Plastics has been inaugurated today. [Exhibition of imaginary trunks in the exhibition hall of the Ernest Lluch Cultural Center of San Sebastian]. It will be available until 31 October.

The Burmese artist Martin Etxauri Sainz de Murieta won last year the Science Society creation scholarship with the Fossil plastics award. The imaginary trunk has worked the project. “This project poses a double question through stem surfaces scanned by photogrammetry and printed in three dimensions: Will plastic sediments play the role of stones in fossil generation, occupying the place of wood and becoming fossils of plastic shaped logs? Or ourselves, in a contradictory dumb exercise, will we create these plastic trunks to harden the surfaces of trees that no longer exist?” With these words, the artist summarizes his work.

The winners of this edition have today received the sculpture of Imanol Andonegi Mendizabal in a simple act that has been held in the hall of events of the Ernest Lluch Cultural Center of San Sebastian. The awards were announced in April, as usual, but the pandemic caused by covid-19 did not allow the collection of the sculpture, allowing the opening of the exhibition.